Peter M. Rhoads

CLARK, RHOADS

Posted By: Judy Wight Branson (email)
Date: 10/12/2004 at 19:00:52

P. M. Rhoads, Webster twp., farmer, Sec. 25; P.O. Winterset; was born in McLean county, Illinois, in November, 1838; came to this county in 1855; owns 127 ½ acres of land; held office of justice of the peace; he enlisted in the 39th Iowa Infantry in the late war and served three years; he married Miss Mary Elizabeth Clark in 1861; she was born in Ohio; has six children: Carpenter E., Mary E., William E., Lillie M., Myrtle E. and James Nathaniel; lost two: Lenora and Lester C.

Taken from the book, "The History of Madison County, Iowa, 1879" page 625